Poverty - Social Theories - Alternative Models?
Prof. Jan Rehmann and Willie Baptist, Scholar in Residence
CS310 - Spring Semester (3 credit points)
The interdisciplinary course combines the empirical, the theoretical, and the visionary.
The course will
1) study immersion experiences and case studies, which focus on how poverty is being perceived and lived in daily life
2) examine theoretical analyses, including the structural backgrounds of deregulation, precarious work and exclusion, as well as the "feminization of poverty" and the connections between poverty and race
3) evaluate different strategies and alternative models of how to end poverty.
A New and Unsettling Force: Reigniting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign - the Poverty Initiative's newest original publication is 
